Post Tagged with: "Paul Patton"

New Course: Journey Across Seven ‘Worlds’ of Food

New Course: Journey Across Seven ‘Worlds’ of Food

By Lori Bauer College of Arts & Science A new team-taught course this fall will carry students on a journey across seven disciplinary “worlds” in search of the social, political, cultural and economic implications of what’s on our plates. CAS 1400 Food Matters: Explorations in Food Across the Liberal Arts […]

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August 27, 2014 at 2:51 pmNews

Shovel by Shovel, an Old Home Emerges in the Forest

Working side by side are left to right Nicholas Stillman, Jonathon Yochum, and Natasha Cromwell.

By Lori Bauer College of Arts & Sciences At what may be the oldest home site uncovered in Southeastern Ohio, people who lived about 4,000 years ago were mostly hunters and gatherers. But they built a home site not far from Athens and stayed awhile. Students archaeologists spent this summer […]

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August 18, 2014 at 9:20 amIn Class

Patton on ‘How the Hopewell Built Their World,’ July 12

Patton on ‘How the Hopewell Built Their World,’ July 12

Dr. Paul E. Patton ’04, ’07M, Anthropology faculty member at Ohio University, presents “How the ‘Hopewell’ Built Their World: Ancient Land Managers in the Ohio Valley” on Saturday, July 12, at 1 p.m. at Serpent Mound. His lecture is part of the 2014 Indigenous Legacies Summer Lecture Series through the […]

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June 5, 2014 at 11:27 amEvents

Professional Historians Train Students in Historical Document Handling

Professional Historians Train Students in Historical Document Handling

Staff from the Athens County Historical Society and Museum visited Ohio University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology on Feb. 12 to provide a special training session for a dozen Arts & Sciences undergraduate students involved in the Appalachia Population History Project. Museum staff members Jessica Ciders and Donald Newell brought […]

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February 20, 2014 at 10:08 pmNews

Patton Discusses ‘Hopewell’ During Ohio Archaeology Month

Dr. Paul Patton, Anthropology faculty member, is presenting “How the ‘Hopewell’ Built Their World: Middle Woodland Period Domestic Landscape Management and Modification in the Ohio Valley” at the Athens County Historical Society and Museum Oct. 9. His presentation is for Ohio Archaeology Month.

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October 4, 2013 at 8:53 pmResearch

Athens News: Archaeological Field School Unearths Prehistoric Hunting Camp

“On the outskirts of Athens, set back in the woods amid the rugged Appalachian landscape, 10 students from the Ohio University Archaeological Field School led by site director Paul Patton, have slowly been unearthing about 1,100 years of history in the form of a Native-American rock shelter,” Athens News reporter […]

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